Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy New Year!

Hello everybody! :) Did you miss me? I hope so because I'm returning (like for REAL) after a long hiatus, full of soul-searching, creative recharging of my mind, broadening my perspectives and I'm ready to make my comeback. I'm feeling better than ever, bursting with the desire to get back to all of you. :)

Naturally, my soul-searching also meant that I re-examined some of my old decisions and rankings. I have revised most of them and eventually, I'll also correct the old reviews and doing some re-writes. That's gonna be work, but I'm ready. :) I still need to re-think 1948, 1973, 1998 and 2009 so I'm excluding them from my list below. :) And of course, I'll be still changing my rankings whenever I feel like it. :)

I was going to say the same thing about Ingrid as Fritz! I've only heard negative things about that one besides from you, of course. Interesting. Also surprised to see Meryl & Judi win in '90 and '06. Love both of those. I was worried you'd change on SigSig, because then I'd have to yell at you ;)

BUT...with all these changes, you still are for Meryl in '11. Grrr. ;)

I'll be back with a new year in the coming weeks too, I'm 3/5 done. Want to finish before posting or I'll never finish. Glad to see you back to posting and Happy New Year! :D

Love your blog but disagree with 2 things... I love Judy Davis but Vanessa Redgrave was the true winner of 1984 ... Just my opinion and I also don't believe you were in your right mind when you choose Meryl over Kathy in 1990 ... Really? By the way did you watch "Coriolanus"? Or "Second Serve" or "Isadora"? If yes, what's your take on Vanessa? I think she was brilhant in everything she's in except for "Mary Queen of Scotts" but what's your opinion on her? Thank you!!!By the way saw Great Jane (Love her too) in The Butler , what did you think of her too in that film? Not enough for her right? Bye D!

We came so close in 1950 and again in 1969 with our basic rankings on the Oscars ..... but with the same "switch." You chose Gloria Swanson for the Oscar with Bette Davis a strong second. I felt just the opposite, and "All About Eve" remains (in my mind, at least) the only Bette Davis film that really deserves to be seen forever. The fact that an Academy Award was handed to a comedian who had practiced her part on Broadway COUNTLESS times before coming to Hollywood to film her play. Just an injustice and insult to MOVIE actresses. Of course the Golden Globes handled it properly ..... giving Judy Holliday the Best Actress in a COMEDY award. But unfortunately they agreed with YOU and not ME on who should get that dramatic actress award. :-) As for 1969 I definitely put Liza Minnelli in the #1 spot for deserving the award, with Jane Fonda in #2. (Again, our switch.) Fonda was great, of course, but there was no "surprise" there for me ..... while I don't think I'll ever forget sitting in that theater and actually feeling "excitement" watching young Liza, in her very first starring role, develop and grow and suddenly display DEEP emotion to the point of baring her soul for us. I knew here was a real ACTRESS that, as much as I already loved her for her "talent," I just had not been prepared to see. And of course she had to win that Oscar for "Cabaret" three years later .... but that should have been her SECOND Academy Award!